SILCHAR, Dec 30 - A day after the supporters of the BJP and the Congress clashed in front of the Rajiv Bhawan in Guwahati during a protest march by the BJP workers against the derogatory comments on Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani and Prime Minister Narendra Modi made by former Minister and Congress legislator Nilamani Sen Deka and Parliamentary Secretary Rupjyoti Kurmi, the supporters of both parties got involved in a face-off in Silchar.
Reacting against the protest rally by the BJP in Guwahati, the cadres of NSUI and Youth Congress led by Parliamentary Secretary and Borkhola legislator Dr Rumi Nath took out a rally from the party office here.
The rally was to culminate at capital point but the Congress cadres went further ahead till the BJP party office at Itkhola where the saffron brigade was equal to the task. Supporters of both parties exchanged heated words and sloganeering which intensified the situation. The police and CRPF personnel had to pacify the situation.
